35mmc - Photography Blog - Reviews, Theory, Reflections, Tutorials, Knowhow and Photography Experiences.

19 February, 2025

Adventures with my 50-year-old OM-1 and some new issues with scanning

By Art Meripol

This was going to be about my old original Olympus OM-1 but it really just reflects a journey that might feel familiar to many within the world of film photography today… ...

19 February, 2025

The Winter of a Lake

By Julian Tanase

It’s always interesting, at least for me, to visit and observe small communities during or around the holidays. This time I happened to be in a small village somewhere in...

18 February, 2025

A personal view of the CCD versus CMOS debate.

By Tony Warren

There has been quite a bit of discussion recently about the relative merits of CCD and CMOS sensors. I did some further reading and came across this article. The most interestin...

Envelope from Scotland with returned roll of 35mm film

18 February, 2025

Never leave a roll behind…

By Mike Riess

In June of 2023, I set off on a two-week trip to Scotland. For weeks before I left, I agonized over what to bring, as we were trying to travel light. In the end, I decided on my...

a black bakelite box camera and its box.

17 February, 2025

Baby Brownie – A review of a quaint box camera

By Charlotte

Years ago, I was enamoured by the Vest Pocket Kodak. The stories of soldiers carrying it during WW1 – what those cameras might have seen – it made my imagination run...

16 February, 2025

Shooting Leica Ms and a Hasselblad 500 CM in the Canadian Rockies

By Scott Ferguson

It’s still a little unbelievable, but my son was recently gifted an extensive collection of vintage high end still equipment that had been sitting in a friend’s ba...

15 February, 2025

Ilford Delta 3200 – 2016 Expired

By Geoff Chaplin

Brace yourselves, this won’t be pleasant. Stored at the top of the fridge in my London flat I found several rolls of Delta 3200 now eight years past the expiry date. I&#x...

14 February, 2025

Zeiss Ikon ZM – Why using a Rangefinder doesn’t mean you crave a red dot

By Nigel Gardner

In an earlier article I suggested why I love an unloved camera, the Zeiss Ikon ZM and why after it being stolen in 2018 I very much miss it. From that article a few people on di...

Richard Angeloni on Marilyn Monroe in Banff – A Zero Shot Story
What a wonderful article! Thanks for sharing these great stories, and photos. Marilyn died when I was an infrant, but…
Gary Smith on Validation – A One-shot Story
DISCOVERY! - Here we are approx. 2 months after I shot these first images with the FE and now I…
Scott Micciche on 5 Frames with Kodak Portra 400 in a Pentax 67
It is true, TSA is accommodating if asked politely. TSA-pre gets you out of that mad rush and having to…

Contribute to 35mmc